2016 - Closing the Water Cycle Gap

The Water JPI held its first Exploratory Workshop on the 14^th November 2016 in Dublin. The workshop was focussed on the Water JPI Strategic & Research innovation Agenda Theme 5 - Closing the Water Cycle Gap - Improving sustainable water resource management. There were 62 attendees during the event.

The objectives of the 2016 Exploratory Workshop were to:

Gather relevant experts in the topic, which will present and discuss their findings to other experts and stakeholders (end-users, policy makers and industry)
Identify Knowledge Gaps and RDI Needs in that area (Emerging needs / Flexible Fiches)
Further elaborate the SRIA RDI Needs

View the 2016 Water JPI Exploratory Workshop Programme & Book of Biographies
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View the Workshop Proceedings.
The programme & presentations are available below.

Programme

9.30am

Welcome

Matt Crowe (Environmental Protection Agency (EPA))

Plenary Session 1 (view master presentation)
Chaired by: Brian Donlon (EPA, Ireland)

09.40am	General Introduction on the Water JPI & Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda	Dominique Darmendrail (Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France)
09.55am	Funding Instruments from the JPI	Alice Wemaere (EPA, Ireland)
10.00am	Water JPI Scientific & Technological Board - Scientific Perspective on the Water JPI SRIA RDI needs within Theme 5	Jaap Kwadijk (Deltares, The Netherlands)
10.20am	Policy Perspective on the Water JPI SRIA RDI needs within Theme 5	Dagmar Behrendt Kaljarikova (European Commission - DG ENV) via Video Link
10.40am	Water JPI Stakeholders Advisory Group End-Users/Economic Perspective on the Water JPI SRIA RDI needs within Theme 5	Antonio Lo Porto (IRSA-CNR - Water Research Institute, Italy)
11.00am	Questions & Answers

Breakout Session-1: Enabling Sustainable Management of Water Resources (view master presentation)
Chaired by: Kristina Laurell (FORMAS, Sweden)
Rapporteurs: Miguel Gilarranz (MINECO, Spain) & Alice Wemaere (EPA, Ireland)

11.45am	NETLAKE COST Action: Networking Lake Observatories in Europe	Eleanor Jennings (Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland)
12.05pm	Terrestrial Environmental Observatories (TERENO)	Steffen Zacharias (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, Germany)
12.25pm	Questions & Answers
12.35pm	Group discussions moderated by the chair on key knowledge gaps in the area

Breakout Session-2: Regional Perspectives (view master presentation)
Chaired by: Diego Intrigliolo (CSIC-CEBAS, Spain)
Rapporteurs: Graham Leeks (NERC, UK) & Brian Donlon (EPA, Ireland)

11.45am	SOLUTIONS for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management	Annemarie van Wezel (KWR Water B.V., The Netherlands)
12.05pm	RISC-KIT: Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts – toolKIT	Ap van Dongeren (Deltares, The Netherlands)
12.25pm	Questions & Answers
12.35pm	Group discussions moderated by the chair on key knowledge gaps in the area

Breakout Session-3: Strengthening Socio-economic Approaches to Water Management (view master presentation)
Chaired by: Daniel Hellström (The Swedish Water & Wastewater Association, Sweden)
Rapporteurs: Prisca Haemers (IenM, The Netherlands) & Aine Murphy (EPA, Ireland)

11.45am	History of water-society relations: A Presentation of lessons learned	Terje Tvedt (University of Bergen, Norway)
12.05pm	EPI-WATER: Evaluating Economic Policy Instruments for Sustainable Water Management in Europe & ENHANCE project: Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe	Carlos Dionisio Pérez-Blanco (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, IT)
12.25pm	Questions & Answers
12.35pm	Group discussions moderated by the chair on key knowledge gaps in the area
2.15pm – 3.15pm	Breakout Sessions (ctd.) 60-minute group discussion moderated by the chair on key knowledge gaps in the area, preparing Overall Summary Fiche on the top 3 knowledge gaps identified, including: Impacts – Challenge – Scope – Relevance to Policy – How to facilitate Knowledge Transfer

Plenary Session 2 (view master presentation)
Chaired by: Padraic Larkin, Water JPI Co-chair

3.45pm – 4.30pm

Review of the Fiches Prepared

5-minute summary by the chairs of the breakout session
30-minute Group discussion

4.30pm – 5.30pm

Round Table Discussion

Panellists include:

European Commission, DG Research & Belmont Forum: Panos Balabanis

Water JPI: Dominique Darmendrail (ANR, FR)
FACCE JPI: Richard Howell (DAFM, IE)
Climate JPI: Torill Engen Skaugen (RCN, Norway)

5.30pm

Close of the Workshop